Textbooks Rentals

Posted by admin on Apr 11, 2012 in Textbook Rentals | 6 comments

That prices of everything that can be bought has gone up is true, even college education — tuition fees and books were not spared. That’s why to rent textbooks nowadays is a convenient option for students. We unfortunately didn’t have this kind of service when I was still in college.

Renting textbooks will save one money, sure,  but situations should also be considered.Whether you would buy or rent textbooks, consider comparing the prices first.

List down the books you need for the semester. Go to bookstores near you or skim through online bookshops and compare prices of the books you need. Next, browse online textbook rental websites for the cheapest rates of available books on your list. Compare both lists and see which would be cheaper.

One such website to lookout for is campusbookrentals.com. They’ve been in the business for years now that they’ve had a big following who can attest to their great services. To start off, here are some of the perks of renting a book from them;

-save 40-90% off of bookstore prices
-free shipping both ways

-one can highlight the textbooks’ pages
-renters are given flexible renting periods
- refunds

The website is very easy to navigate and there’s a FAQs page to readily answer your questions. If you are working on a paper about childhood and what’s shaping their education then you can easily rent textbooks related to this topic such as The Developing Child; Children, Adolescents, and the Media and Child, Family; and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education. You just need to type in a keyword or the book title, ISBN perhaps or book author’s name on the search box to find your materials.

Perhaps the fact that campusbookrentals.com donate to Operation Smile with each textbook rented would also motivate you to rent textbooks instead of buying them. Operation Smile is an organization of charitable, loving people dedicated to healing cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities. With this endeavor comes also the long-term improvement in quality of life of those children and those around them, a ripple effect so to speak.

And good news, if you already bought textbooks earlier on  before learning about campusbookrentals.com, you can sell them too provided that you don’t need them anymore!

*Image credit http://www.saycampuslife.com

Charles Dickens on Google Doodle

Posted by admin on Feb 7, 2012 in Google Doodle | 6 comments

Google honors English novelist Charles Dickens with a doodle.  Two hundred years and Dickens’ works have never gone out of print.

In this classic doodle of an old-fashioned sepia-ink-style with subtle coloring that is reminiscent of typical adventure novel illustrations, we see a few characters of the 13,143 that Dickens brought to life from the books he wrote. This as how doodlers did it as always to identify with the main man.

To name some of the characters and I hope I’m right…from the first G is Charles Darnay, a french nobleman who married Lucie Manette in “A Tale of Two Cities.” His being inside the G is symbolical of his almost-death by the guillotine – to which Sydney Carton sacrificed himself for his love of Lucie.

On the first O donning a Victorian hat is Little Dorrit or Amy, the seamstress whose fortune took a long time finding her from “Little Dorrit.”

Sitting on the second  O is Tiny Tim and below him is perhaps Dicken’s most famous character Ebenezer Scrooge from “A Christmas Carol.” So influential is Scrooge, his name has entered the English language to mean miserliness, a trait he’s known for and so does ”Bah! Humbug!” his most famous line.

They are followed by Pip and Estella from another of Dicken’s great book, “Great Expectations.” We can see Pip with roses to define how he pursued Estella throughout the story.

Standing by the lamp (the letter L) we could see Oliver Twist and his friend, probably the Artful Dodger. Like many of Dickens’ books’ theme, Oliver Twist tackles poverty and social issues and concern for social reforms.

At the end, inside a shop, is Nell Trent and her grandfather from  ”The Old Curiosity Shop,” drawn quiet well and not depicting poverty at all.

All these and a number more characters are drawn behind, set in London to perfectly depict Dickens’ stories.

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To better identify the characters, watch this video closely.

Dickens wrote a lot more books that garnered praise most notably David Copperfield, Hard Times, The Pickwick Papers, and Bleak House. It would probably take the whole pixel span of a browser if doodlers are to put them all in.

I’ve yet to find my other Dickens books, as of presstime I found these three with the help of my daughter. (I tend to have books in my bags, so it’s probable they’re in one somewhere.)  Oopps, did I just describe how chaotic I am? Hopefully I get to write about each soon….